Gertrude
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Gertrude (also spelt Getrud) is a female forename. See Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries for a curiosity with this name.
People with this name include:
- Hamlet's mother.
- The heroine of Herman Hesse's novel Gertrud.
- Gertrude the Great (1256–1301) known informally as Saint Gertrude.
- Gertrude of Austria (1226–-1288)
- Gertrude of Holland, wife of Robert I, Count of Flanders
- Gertrude of Merania (1185–1213)
- Gertrude of Nivelles (626–659)
- Gertrude Atherton, American writer
- Gertrude Wheeler Beckman, voice coach
- Gertrude Bell, an archaeologist and spy
- Gertrude Edelstein Berg (1894–196)
- Gertrude Blanch (ca. 1897–1996)
- Gertrude Chataway
- Gertrude Crampton, an author of children's books
- Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), politician
- Gertrude Dunn
- Gertrude Ederle
- Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), pharmacist.
- Gertrude Gadwall, a fictional character
- Gertrud Heise
- Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), a gardener
- Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952)
- Minnie Gertrude Matthews
- Sarah Gertrude Millin
- Gertrude Mongella, an ambassador from Tanzania.
- Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), a preacher, and missionary.
- Gertrud Rabestein
- Gertrude Pridgett Rainey
- Gertrud Scholtz-Klink
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), writer
- Gertrude Vachon, an American professional wrestler.
- Gertrude Vanderbilt
- Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979)
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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